HYANNIS – Monomoy/Mashpee junior captain Noah Tambolleo said he had been working on a specific breakaway move in practice.

Having scored twice already Monday on 1-on-1 breaks, he gave it a chance, faking a forehand shot and doing a one-arm backhanded reach to guide the puck under the stick of Nantucket’s freshman goalie Bodie Corbett.

“I’ve been practicing that for a while,” said Tambolleo, who gave a salute mimicking NHL great Jaromir Jagr while skating to the bench. “I’m glad I could finally incorporate it into a game.”

The second-period goal capped a hat trick and marked his team-leading 20th goal of the season, leading the Monarchs to a 3-2 victory at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center.

Video: Noah Tambolleo scores his third goal of the game

“I’ve never really felt that kind of achievement before,” Tambolleo said of reaching the milestone. “It’s just absolutely great.”

Tambolleo leads the core of eight juniors and three seniors in the fourth year of the combined program.

Along with leadership from senior captains Will Wahtola and Josh Vitinsky, the Monarchs have gotten plenty of open-ice hits and solid checking from their juniors, especially Cam Coomber and Tom Dubie.

“We call ourselves a blue-collar hockey team,” said Monarchs coach Chris Peterson, who defeated Nantucket for the first time. “It’s not about huge hits, it’s about disrupting the play, bang them around a little bit and keep them on their toes.”

The Monarchs (5-10), who lost to the Whalers, 4-3, on Jan. 27, were outshot, 30-16, and needed their physical defense to perform when they played conservatively with a 3-2 lead almost the entire third period.

Junior goalie Jack Daigneault, who has played varsity since his freshman year, was up to the task, masking multiple lunging and sprawling saves, plus one he covered up after it hit his mask.

Daigneault also made two stops with Nantucket’s goalie pulled in the final 30 seconds. After the first, sophomore Kyle Gabri fed it to Tambolleo, who shot it off the right post.

Nantucket countered behind the net in the closing seconds, but Daigneault covered the puck as time expired.

Video: Sights and sounds from Monday's game

“We did the little things to get the win,” Peterson said. “They pulled it together when they needed to.”

Tambolleo broke the deadlock about four minutes into the first period when a clearing pass hit his stick at the blue line, and Tambolleo deked the goalie and went to his forehand.

Video: Noah Tambolleo talks about the win against Nantucket

Nantucket (4-9-1) equalized midway through the second when Jeff Duame slammed home a wide-open rebound for his first of two goals.

But Tambolleo came right back down the ice 19 seconds later and beat Corbett to the five-hole, putting the Monarchs back in the lead.

Duame beat Daigneault on a scramble less than a minute into the third, but the defense held off the Whalers the rest of the way.

“The kids came out with a buzz,” Nantucket coach DJ Watkins said of the third period. “The result is not what we wanted, but the effort and intensity is what we wanted.”

Mashpee/Monomoy has to win its final five games to make the postseason, but Tambolleo and Peterson said they’re optimistic about the future regardless of how the season ends.

“I think it’s not over yet,” Tambolleo said. “but there’s definitely more to come and more to build on every year.”

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